putting together a New Year hamper for 22Cans
Jan 9, 2016 9:32:24 GMT
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Post by Crumpy Six on Jan 9, 2016 9:32:24 GMT
An update on this.
My willingness to spend the time and money to put this hamper together (with contents both good and the bad!) was based on my belief that since Simon and Colin joined the company, 22Can have been making an effort to shape Godus into something half-playable. I'm not saying I expected to love, or even LIKE, the final product, but Simon made some fairly bold claims about sorting out the underlying strategy problems in the business and for a while we were getting updates that made it seem like they were working on PC Godus in a meaningful way. With the renewed media focus on Godus last year, Simon was brought in at exactly the time when there was intense scrutiny on backer rewards and 22Cans' early commitments to its customers, so if such a turnaround was ever going to happen, it was then. Also, regardless of the way the senior stakeholders at 22Cans have treated their customers, it would still be nice to have a laugh with the boots-on-the-ground staff by sending them some funny stuff.
Having said that, the latest extended communication blackout has been topped off with snippets of contextless leaked info about 'Godus Wars' which makes me concerned that the next thing 22Cans delivers to us is going to be yet another massive middle finger. For example: F2P with microtransactions on the PC (and given a new title to evade reviews and promises). If this is the case, my motivation to bother with this project is going to plummet. So I'm going to wait for them to deliver and prove me wrong.
I have not yet used to game key mindless sent me, so if this ends up not happening, I will pass it on to whoever came 2nd in the contest. Regardless of the outcome, I still quite like the idea of making them a t-shirt. We should definitely do that.
My willingness to spend the time and money to put this hamper together (with contents both good and the bad!) was based on my belief that since Simon and Colin joined the company, 22Can have been making an effort to shape Godus into something half-playable. I'm not saying I expected to love, or even LIKE, the final product, but Simon made some fairly bold claims about sorting out the underlying strategy problems in the business and for a while we were getting updates that made it seem like they were working on PC Godus in a meaningful way. With the renewed media focus on Godus last year, Simon was brought in at exactly the time when there was intense scrutiny on backer rewards and 22Cans' early commitments to its customers, so if such a turnaround was ever going to happen, it was then. Also, regardless of the way the senior stakeholders at 22Cans have treated their customers, it would still be nice to have a laugh with the boots-on-the-ground staff by sending them some funny stuff.
Having said that, the latest extended communication blackout has been topped off with snippets of contextless leaked info about 'Godus Wars' which makes me concerned that the next thing 22Cans delivers to us is going to be yet another massive middle finger. For example: F2P with microtransactions on the PC (and given a new title to evade reviews and promises). If this is the case, my motivation to bother with this project is going to plummet. So I'm going to wait for them to deliver and prove me wrong.
I have not yet used to game key mindless sent me, so if this ends up not happening, I will pass it on to whoever came 2nd in the contest. Regardless of the outcome, I still quite like the idea of making them a t-shirt. We should definitely do that.
